On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:17:56AM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03.46, Michael George wrote:
I have a Mac that I don't use much anymore. It has a 22" monitor with the ADC connector. I'm wondering if anyone had experience with dual-head video cards (VGA and DVI) with a converter on DVI to drive a Mac Monitor. I could sure use the real estate, but it looks like the new video card and converter will set me back $250-300, so I'd like to know if there are any gotchas with this route. Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Never tried a "pure" Mac monitor before, but as long as you have the spec's for it i don't see why you shouldn't be able to use it.
specs? Being digital LCD, I'm thinking that the resolution is about all I'd need for it. There really isn't any refresh rate or anything. ... is there?
Does Windows recognize it OK via the converter?
I don't know, I don't have the converter or windows :)
Why new graphics card? I use two cards (and three monitors) in my box right now. One Matrox G400 DualHead (agp) driving two 19" and one Matrox Millennium (pci) driving a 17" So another pci card in yours wouldn't cost you that much...
That's true, I could go with a DVI PCI card. I guess the big thing is whether the converter (~$100) will make the monitor usable in linux. The ones I've found are intended for use on older Macs with DVI video to make use of the newer ADC monitors. Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.